oldmanfan

I have a doctorate in Anatomy and taught anatomy and physiology for over 40 years. I tend to think that there is something to NFL players being perhaps overconditioned. Meaning that the amount of load and force that can be generated by the muscle mass is greater than the ability of tendons and ligaments to handle. I’m not sure that stretching would do much. Tendons and ligaments are collections of very dense connective tissue and don’t have much in the way of elastic fibers that would allow for stretch.

The stenosis doesn’t occur in one practice. An injury leading to X ray or MRI would. I don’t know if teams routinely screen for this or not.

I suspect the injury and subsequent testing revealed spinal stenosis such that damage could result in permanent paralysis. I’d advise any athlete to walk away; it is a game after all, not worth destroying your life over, or even losing it.

You put the ball in the hands of your best players - Allen, Cook, Shakir, Kincaid.

The young man needs to learn that you don’t publicize those kinds of things

My understanding is there was confusion on the defensive set up which is why McD called the TO. And Mahomes then made a Mahomsean play that was helped by Bernard sloughing off coverage. Let’s imagine if he does not call the TO, guys are running around like it’s a Chinese fire drill, and they make the first down, or even score. People would be here beeyatching about not calling a TO.

So you’re criticizing not making moves while the trade deadline is still open

Don’t take the foot off the gas this week.

Ok. I’ll take each of these on. GMs are not Nostradamus. We had plenty of depth on the D line starting the season but now we have had 4 DTs go down to injury and a hybrid DE/DT lost for the season yesterday. No GM can anticipate such; all you can do at that point is fill in as best you can which he has done. Now CB. We have a better corner than Tre. Hairston. A first round pick who unfortunately got hurt but yesterday showed why he went round 1. Is there any doubt going forward he will play more than Tre? As for WR they brought in Palmer and Moore. Palmer, as with the examples above, got hurt. Moore has not been a revelation but made a big catch yesterday and Palmer made a few before he got hurt. Brady has a balanced offense going with Cook a premier rusher, and Shakir and Kincaid the main receiving threats. And from all accounts Beane has been working the phones for another WR. So the arguments about a WR have some validity, while your others do not unless you believe GMs should be Nostradamus.

I imagine Beane is working the phones for a DT or DE plus a WR.

What a damn shame. He was a perfect fit for the D. We hope for a successful survey and quick recovery, and for guys like Groot and AJ (and yes Jackson gets his shot) to carry the battle forward.

Damn shame, he was playing really well. I suspect we’ll see Jackson now on the active roster, and either him, Groot, or Epenesa fill the hybrid role that Hoecht had.

From reports Beane has been very active looking for a WR. Have to add a DT to that as well. I expect we will bring guys in by trade at each spot, and that half the folks on the board will beeyatch about who he got.

You asked if we will ever have a win where we weren’t biting our nails. There was one. Now we’re going to qualify wins based on specific players?

Mahomes completed less than 50%.

You mean like 40-9 last week?

I bet he’s on the list Yeah, but the back end played pretty good today

McD has said Jackson is showing more in practice. I see a trade but he’s getting more playing time just given the number of guys out

I just thought the interview was kind of weird but your pictures make me feel better

Tomorrow will be very interesting.

Good to see that!

His timeouts weren’t mistakes. In fact the one he called when they were at the goal line and prevented a TD was huge. And going for the FG was smart because it ran the clock down and it wins the game. Even missing it meant he puts a defense out there that held Mahomes to less than 50% on the day to keep him from going 60 yards in 20 seconds. Which they did. What the hell is wrong with me? I guess celebrating a win over a major competitor in our conference. Silly me.

We’ll miss Hoechst when he moves inside. A lot.

Josh was outstanding. I was intrigued by the post-game interview with Wolfson. He looked everywhere but at her answering questions, his affect was pretty flat. Seemed kind of odd.

Jackson moves up to get his shot. But I also think they make a trade.